Online social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook generate tremendous amount of text and social interaction data. On one hand, the increasing amount of available information has motivated computational research ...

Integrating sensor networks in cloud computing gives new opportunities of using as many cloud-computing nodes as necessary to analyze real-time sensor data on the fly. However, most cloud services for parallelization such ...

This thesis presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of adding features of automatic distributed injection, diffusion, merger, and termination to reactive agents in a parallel simulation and analysis environment. ...

In their 2001 work Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Blei, Ng, and Jordan proposed the generative model of the same name that has since become the basis for most research in the field of topic modeling. The model overcame many ...

<bold>Dynamic Load Balancing</bold> (DLB) in Multi-agent Spatial Simulation (MASS) library is a thread-based load-balancing algorithm that calculates the CPU load, per thread, based on the computational time spent by CPU, ...

There are widespread concerns about how changes in media and technologies are affecting people's media habits. Clay Johnson (2012) proposes using the metaphor of an "information diet" to consider this as a health issue, ...

Binocular vision issues are a primary cause of reading and writing difficulties among children, with as many at 25 percent of school-aged children needing vision therapy. Vision issues are a better predictor of academic ...

AgentTeamwork-Lite is a mobile-agent-based job scheduling and monitoring framework that has been developed in the concept of field-based job dispatch and migration where agents migrate over a computing-resource field to ...

Online social networks are very popular with millions of people creating online profiles and sharing personal information including their interests, activities, likes/dislikes and thoughts with their friends and family. ...

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is one of the leading causes of hospitalization, and studies show that many of these admissions are readmissions. Identifying patients who are at a greater risk of hospitalization, can guide ...

Many years of research have yielded computer modeling techniques that can predict the behavior of complex systems, such as traffic speeds in regional transportation systems, with high accuracy. However, the prediction ...

Topical categorization of blogs, documents or other objects that can be tagged with text, improves the experience for end users. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a well studied algorithm that discovers latent topics ...

A goal of reusing source code is to lower development cost; however, reuse techniques usually require additional costs in creating generic source code and retrieving the appropriate source code from a code repository. This ...